The same reason Reagan was so popular while he gutted the federal government to give to the rich, he was a literal celebrity and actor, and many Americans base their entire judgement of someone on their screen presence

My options are:

1. “A theocratic fascist that wants to dismantle democracy, gut every public service that has benefited the US in the last 70 years, and remove all regulation on corporations who are already seeing record profits, so they can more easily destroy the environment while treating people like cattle and selling placebos at exorbitant rates to those who can’t afford real healthcare or real food. Oh also the whole “kill the gays, enslave the poor” and the like.”

Or

2. “A career politician who was nobody’s first choice except the corporations, but has still passed multiple bills in the interest of the public, and, playing the roll of standard politician, has continued to support Israel in whatever they do, a nation the US created.”

Option 1 is just option 2 + the fall of the US and immense human suffering. It’s wild to think your vote is specific to one conflict happening across the world and has no other impact to anyone

.ml where you at

And sign their Open Letter to Publishers, which will help demonstrate public support during their ongoing lawsuit:

https://change.org/LetReadersRead

https://blog.archive.org/2024/07/01/what-happened-last-friday-in-hachette-v-internet-archive/

The conclusion says it best:

I think we can all agree: Fuck TicketMaster. I hope their sleazy product managers and business majors read this and throw a tantrum. I hope their devs read this and feel embarrassed. It’s rare that I feel genuine malice towards other developers, but to those who designed this system, I say: Shame.

Shame on you for abusing your talent to exclude the technologically-disadvantaged.

Shame on you for letting the marketing team dress this dark-pattern as a safety measure.

Shame on you for supporting a company with such cruel business practices.

Software developers are the wizards and shamans of the modern age. We ought to use our powers with the austerity and integrity such power implies. You’re using them to exclude people from entertainment events.

It was a railroad town at the start, so really just a “once we get through this desert we’ve made it to California.” And after that it was the Boulder Dam worker town, which is where all the casinos came from

They thought he was doing whatever social media programmed them to think. And he passed a tax cut that was 90% in the favor of the rich, but had a pittance for the middle class, so they felt that, while being uninformed, and their dopamine centers got a little warm and now they associate that with trump

In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,”

Claim no knowledge until the election so you capture the vote of those idiots who think “oh he’ll just be a good old fashioned hard lined president and drain the swamp”

Once you’re elected, use your now legal ability to assassinate anyone in your way and rebuild the government as you see fit into a new theological autocracy/corporatocracy while those same people, influenced by russian and billionaire social propaganda just shrug casually because they have a room temperature IQ

Cheap version of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_cabinet

It’s a publicly traded company. Investors hate risk, especially short term risk, no matter how unlikely. The board answers to investors. It’s a byproduct of “growth every quarter, above all else,” AKA late stage hypercapitalism

New war meta is crazy this season

Yeah this is just capitalistic business in general. Don’t do anything proactive if it might reduce the bottom line in the short term. Blame others and beg for help when you weren’t proactive. Succeed singularly, fail collectively

Lost redditors I think

Ran Wikileaks. Received classified US military docs about wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Published them.

In response, South Korea blared anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers on June 9 for the first time in six years

This literally sounds like the international version of two petty neighbors fighting while trying to not break their HOA contracts

https://www.conney.com/style/kappler-frontline-500-flash-fire-chemical-handling-suit?PMWTNO=000000000316273

lol sorry couldn’t help it, but I agree

Yeah some people would bubble this lawsuit as like “we’re seeking millions in psychological damages” but 80k is what I would expect for home repair and a little “you almost killed our kid”

Or in this case, their son, who was home at the time, and just happened to be in a different room

https://www.walmart.com/ip/862670990

In all serious though I don’t think that term has ever been used outside of articles for this research